From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] standalone cpu server wiki From: mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca In-Reply-To: <32910.138.89.146.98.1074760052.squirrel@www.infernopark.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 22:58:22 -0700 Topicbox-Message-UUID: bd535b28-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > - if fossil crashes, you could clean it up and restart it with a previous > snapshot from venti but to do that you have to have a small kfs filesystem > anyway. (am i right? this is something that i guessed after much pain. i > was wondering how 9fans recover the machine from a fossil crash) you can use a live cd with Plan 9 to boot and reinitialize fossil too, or anything that will get you to sources.cs where you can run the binaries... the fact that you need another fs to boot from in order to fix fossil has been complained about before, but nobody has mentioned yet that (fossil or no fossil) Plan 9 gives you a much more exciting (and novel!) way of fixing things -- next time your fossil crashes send me an email and I'll give you an account on ucalgary.ca where you can boot your system as a terminal and fix your fossil in about 15 minutes flat. in fact, you can fix pretty much anything from everywhere as long as you have a decent 9pcdisk kernel to start with. no mucking around with floppies and installations, no recovery disks. just a 9fat partition or a floppy that lets you hop on to any Plan 9 installation in the world (to which you have permissions to authenticate, of course) and you have the full power of a Plan 9 machine at your disposal. andrey